Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1887-08-04


cobbler: if he is drowning he will catch al
the straw.
It's strange fact that when retrench-
ment is necessary the printer or the preach
or is the first victim. Mental and spiritual
interests are forsakcn and suffer at the first
shock Of financial distress.
The Toledo platform dePrecates national
strife Italics our own. In view OF the
recent rows with the President q depreca-
ton Of sectional strife would be triile bare
faced-eyen for the z. O.p.
The Maryland Democratic State Conyen-
ton met in Baltimore on Wednesday OF
last week and nominated +. f. Jackson for
Governor; VIM. Pinkney White for Attor-
ney-G General, and L. Victor Baughmau for
Comptroller
The men you meet on the street these
hot DAYS are animated interrogation points.
No matter how often they meet you they
ask IS il hot enough for yOu?" They might
know it is without exerting themselves to
make an original inquiry.
Foraker and sherman are still running
the party in Ohio. At Toledo the former
bagged a re-nomination-thc latter begged
and bagged a prime old presidential boost.
The harmony-thc cut and dried harmony
was beautiful to behold.
What's up with Jimgee that he must cut
short his prescribed years exile abroad and
come numbering home in this abrupt style
Is John sherman piling up little too much
popularity with the aithful-stealiug the
thunder ofMaines political god?
Cincinnati. Chicago, Omaha, Kansas City
S. Paul, Minneapolis. Lynchburg, Raleigh,
Chattanooga-they are al clamoring for
visit from our popular President. When
he gets started next month we fear Grover
will be kept sedulously on the go.
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An inch-aul -a-half snake, pure white, in
bit of ice-how's that Brother Harry? A
Norristown matron placed the ice in a cool
er without water and ON drawing later cup
of the liquid, found the small hideOsity-its
head reared and the eyes cleaning.
Prince Kron Luang Devawongse Naro-
prakan. minister of foreign affairs in Siam
and the Kings brother, called on the Presi-
dent Tuesday. The Executive wisely re-
Trained from tackling his visitors name
Jaw is precious in this country-and cheek
superintendent in some localities.
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Queen Victoria will spend August at Os-
borne recovering from her fatigue and iigu-
ring up her jubilee receipts especially the
Jubilee receipts. The Prince of Wales would
like TO rest from the labor incident TO think
ing Of his creditors and how to appease
them. The Queens jubilee is said to have
cost him a cool million.
Risky business sitting on ones window
sill these sultry nights trying to catch a fresh
of breath air. a lady, Mrs Crane, At It.
Jo., No, thinks SO, anyhow She sat, she
dozed. she lost her balance There was a
Gutter of white raiment through seventy
feet of space-and an ungrateful female sat
ON the sidewalk bewailiug broken toe,
Given her choice between parting with
her husband, her poodle or her looking
glass the average fashionable young woman
will yield up the woolly quadrupcd with
perhaps a tinge of regret, and even throw
in q licgc lord for good measure, but she
will glue on to that familiar bit Of latter
ing mirror with a devotion beautiful TO be-
hold. That's how they love US,
DIR. Staudiford, Of Louisville Kentucky,
died a few days ago. lie was a man Of
great wealth, bcncyolence and popularity,
and his friends were ambitious that he
should succeed Mr. Beck in the United
States Senate. 1t is now conceded that Mr..
Beck is, practically, without acompetitor
lie is a great mana power in the Senate.
1, would be a calamity 20 lose him.
In his address before the Toledo convcn-
ton that re-nomiuatcd him Gov. Foraker
said that the President when stopped from
returning the Confed flags "quailed like
whipped spaniel before the protests OF the
loyal millions of the North" This covert
imputation Of disloyalty to the South ought
to be good for a few thousand votes extra
if the Buckeye faithful yet relish able-bod-
led lying.
A lot Of hifalutin ordinances" got up
by the Commissioners went into operation
in Washington last Thursday. The regula-
tons governor pretend 20 govern-cock-
growing, bcll-ringing, crying Of wares,